Politics

Alas politicians today seem to base their policies on focus groups and surveys of public opinion. They lick their forefingers, raise them to the sky and follow the prevailing wind. True leaders who have a strong conviction and pursue it, sometimes changing the national mood, have gone. 

The political response to the Supreme Court ruling has been limp to say the least. The main parties have all said that the ruling gives clarification, which it doesn’t. It introduces a huge anomaly in which trans people have two legal sexes at once. 

Is that clear enough for you? 

The right, not surprisingly, has misrepresented the ruling as a blanket decision that men are men and women are women. As far as they are concerned it’s all woke nonsense and this clears it up. Farage predictably, has said “the lunacy is over!” Alas no, he is still with us. 

Sadly the progressive parties have kept their heads down and failed to point out what the ruling really means. Keir Starmer is, I suspect, fearful of losing votes on the right, hoping to hide behind the Equalities and Human Rights commission which has already issued interim guidance which I think one can fairly say, is straightforwardly anti trans. It seeks to ban trans people from using the facilities of their adopted gender when the Supreme Court ruling itself does not require it. 

Starmer will shrug his shoulders and say “it’s a shame, but what can we do?” 

I’ll tell him what he can do. 

He’s the Prime Minister and he has a huge majority. He can lead and not follow. And he can do the right thing and enshrine trans rights in law.